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1248

EVENTS

April 26 - The Gothic Chapel Sainte-Chapelle is concecrated in Paris , France .

August 15 - The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral is laid after an older cathedral on the site burns down in April 30 of that year. Construction was completed 632 years later, in 1880 .

King Louis IX Of France launches the Seventh Crusade , leading an army of 20,000 toward Egypt .

King Ferdinand III Of Castile recaptures the city of Seville from the Moors during the Reconquista .

Roger Bacon publishes the formula of Black Powder in Europe.

Pope Innocent IV grants the Croats permission to use their own language and script in Liturgy (see Glagolitic Alphabet ).

Construction on the Alhambra palace, in Granada , Spain , is begun by the Moors .

The University Of Piacenza is founded.

BIRTHS

Blanche Of Artois , regent of Navarre (approximate date; died 1300 )

Robert II, Duke Of Burgundy (died 1306 )

Gao Kegong , Chinese painter

King Charles II Of Naples (approximate date)

Peter Olivi , Franciscan theologian

DEATHS

January 4 - King Sancho II Of Portugal

February 1 - Henry II, Duke Of Brabant (born 1207 )

Adachi Kagemori , Japanese samurai

Güyük Khan , ruler of the Mongol Empire

King Harald Of The Isle Of Man